Norcross, GA — ERDAS announces that it is a Gold Sponsor at Map Asia, July 26-28, 2010 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. During this conference, ERDAS President, Joel Campbell will be presenting on “The Changing Landscape of Remote Sensing.”

“We are excited to participate in the Map Asia 2010 conference, bringing together ERDAS desktop and server solutions to meet the geospatial information needs throughout SE Asia,“ said Kaushik Chakraborty, Vice President, Asia Pacific, ERDAS. “ERDAS provides the most comprehensive portfolio of solutions for authoring, managing and delivering geospatial information relevant for decision-making processes.”

Exhibiting in booth #14, ERDAS is showcasing ERDAS 2010 Software, which includes ERDAS IMAGINE, LPS, ERDAS APOLLO and several other desktop and server solutions.  ERDAS IMAGINE 2010 incorporates image analysis, remote sensing and GIS. Featuring a new ribbon interface, ERDAS IMAGINE makes it easier for users to navigate and customize their workspace. ERDAS IMAGINE also provides enhanced tools for parallel batch processing, spatial modeling, map production,

mosaicking and change detection. LPS 2010 is a powerful photogrammetry system for a variety of workflows, including defense, remote-area mapping, transportation planning, orthophoto production (for basemap generation) and close-range applications. ERDAS APOLLO 2010 is customizable, equipped to fully understand, competently manage and rapidly serve an organization’s large volumes of geospatial data. ERDAS APOLLO implements an out-of-the‑box Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), that provides a publish, find and bind workflow for any data type.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Connecting Government & Citizen through Ubiquitous GIS.”  As governments strive to make seamless and cost-effective services available to citizens, individual agencies must view themselves as an integrated part of ‘one government, many agencies, and single-window delivery.’  This conference provides an opportunity for the public and private sectors to share ideas on how to leverage technology to grow towards a connected government.

For more information about ERDAS or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 877 GO ERDAS, or visit www.erdas.com.

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About ERDAS

ERDAS – The Earth to Business Company – helps organizations harness the information of the changing earth for greater advantage.

ERDAS creates geospatial business systems that transform our earth’s data into business information, enabling individuals, businesses and public agencies to quickly access, manage, process and share that information from anywhere.

Using secure geospatial information, ERDAS solutions improve employee, customer and partner visibility to information, enabling them to respond faster and collaborate better. It also means better decision-making, increased productivity and new revenue streams.

Welcome to ERDAS: a trusted name, with a new energy, and a new vision. Earth to business starts here.

ERDAS is a part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden. For more information about ERDAS or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit www.erdas.com.